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Preparing the WayMon, 20 May 2019 11:13:48 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.753770503Kulima part of team presenting an initial cost estimate of South Africa’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategyhttp://kulima.com/2019/05/20/kulima-part-of-team-presenting-an-initial-cost-estimate-of-south-africas-national-climate-change-adaptation-strategy/
Mon, 20 May 2019 11:13:48 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2822Read more »]]>Last week Dr Katharine Vincent and colleagues from CowaterSogema presented their initial cost estimate for the implementation of South Africa's National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy to the Department of Environmental Affairs. The aim of the costing exercise is to highlight the business case for investment in adaptation in South Africa, for use both within national government and to seek alternative sources of adaptation finance. The strategy has a 10 year lifespan as is due to be formally adopted in 2019. The team applied mixed methods (top down/parametric, bottom-up, analagous and expert-informed) to cost the strategic interventions. The next step is for the draft to be presented to a stakeholder workshop prior to finalisation.
]]>2822Kulima participated in the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction to launch a project on mainstreaming gender into DRM planshttp://kulima.com/2019/05/20/kulima-participated-in-the-global-platform-for-disaster-risk-reduction-to-launch-a-project-on-mainstreaming-gender-into-drm-plans/
Mon, 20 May 2019 07:00:06 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2817Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent was in Geneva last week, participating in the 4th World Reconstruction Conference as part of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. The event marked an opportunity to launch a new project that Katharine is undertaking with Cowater Sogema and the World Bank to support Regional Economic Commissions in Africa to mainstream gender into their disaster risk reduction. Over the coming months, Katharine will lead a team of female gender, disaster and resilience specialists to support the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to develop Gender Strategies and Action Plans that ensure disaster risk reduction activities are gender-responsive.
]]>2817Kulima running training in Botswana on gender mainstreaming in climate change projectshttp://kulima.com/2019/05/06/kulima-running-training-in-botswana-on-gender-mainstreaming-in-climate-change-projects/
Mon, 06 May 2019 07:00:27 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2811Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent is in Gaborone this week, running a training course on gender mainstreaming in climate change projects for Forest Conservation Botswana. The workshop has been organised with the support of the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership (a programme supported by DFID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), and aims to build capacity to develop gender-responsive project concept notes and proposals that are successful in receiving resources from the Green Climate Fund. Katharine will be providing an introduction to gender and climate change, and then outlining the process of designing gender-responsive projects, including the gender assessment and gender action plan.
]]>2811Kulima participating in CDKN Knowledge Accelerator lab with DECCMA Ghana teamhttp://kulima.com/2019/04/08/kulima-participating-in-cdkn-knowledge-accelerator-lab-with-deccma-ghana-team/
Mon, 08 Apr 2019 07:00:08 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2804Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent is in Cape Town this week, participating in a CDKN Knowledge Accelerator lab with the DECCMA Ghana team. The Knowledge Accelerator lab forms part of an initiative of CDKN to move "from knowledge to action" in selected African countries. Building on findings from 4.5 years of research on climate change, migration and adaptation in the Volta delta, the DECCMA Ghana team, led by the University of Ghana, submitted a project concept under the call on empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana. The lab will provide the opportunity to further develop the concept into a proposal that supports a transition to gender-responsive adaptation in the delta. Katharine is a member of the multi-stakeholder team, which comprises researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
]]>2804Kulima running gender session at the Southern African Climate Finance Partnership regional learning forumhttp://kulima.com/2019/04/02/kulima-running-gender-session-at-the-southern-african-climate-finance-partnership-regional-learning-forum/
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:00:42 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2800Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent is in Maun this week at the second regional learning forum of the Southern African Climate Finance Partnership (SACFP). Funded by the UK's Department For International Development and Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, SACFP is supporting Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe to develop country-owned and managed climate finance portfolios that can be financed through the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other climate finance avenues. The Regional Learning Forum is an opportunity to share experiences and Katharine will run a session on developing gender-responsive proposals that meet the criteria in the GCF's Gender Policy. This follows on from earlier training in Botswana on gender and climate change.
]]>2800New paper with inputs from Kulima “A framework to analyse the implications of coastal transformation on inclusive development”http://kulima.com/2019/03/18/new-paper-with-inputs-from-kulima-a-framework-to-analyse-the-implications-of-coastal-transformation-on-inclusive-development/
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:00:02 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2791Read more »]]>A new paper "A framework to analyse the implications of coastal transformation on inclusive development" has just been made available online in the journal Environmental Science and Policy. The paper, led by Natalie Suckall with co-authors Emma L. Tompkins and Kulima director Dr Katharine Vincent, is an an output of the IDRC and DFID-funded Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project. The paper applies an analytical framework based on ideas of inclusive development (defined as Access to resources; Allocation of both resources and the impacts associated with climate change; and, individual Subjective Wellbeing) to three different types of coastal transformation (protect, accommodate, retreat). It highlights that coastal transformations have different effects on different people; and that winners and losers are determined by whose agenda is taken into account in planning the transformation. This insight reinforces the need for further research on the impacts of coastal transformation, as without due care, policies designed to generate transformation can generate significant losers.
]]>2791Kulima participating in costing of South Africa’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategyhttp://kulima.com/2019/03/04/kulima-participating-in-costing-of-south-africas-national-climate-change-adaptation-strategy/
Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:17:48 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2783Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent is working as part of a team led by CowaterSogema to cost South Africa's National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (which also acts as the National Adaptation Plan under the UNFCCC). The aim of the costing exercise is to highlight the business case for investment in adaptation in South Africa, for use both within national government and to seek alternative sources of adaptation finance. The strategy has a 10 year lifespan as is due to be formally adopted in 2019. The team are applying mixed methods to cost the strategic interventions, which will then be presented to a stakeholder workshop prior to finalisation.
]]>2783Kulima contributing to gender and climate change training in Botswanahttp://kulima.com/2019/02/18/kulima-contributing-to-gender-and-climate-change-training-in-botswana/
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:25:46 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2777Read more »]]>Dr Katharine Vincent is in Gaborone this week, contributing to a day of training on gender and climate change. The workshop has been organised by the Botswana National Designated Authority, with the support of the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership (a programme supported by DFID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), and aims to build capacity to develop project concept notes and proposals that are successful in receiving resources from the Green Climate Fund. Katharine will be outlining the Green Climate Fund's Gender Policy and Action Plan, and running interactive exercises to enable participants to identify opportunities to make climate change projects gender-responsive.
]]>2777Three new UMFULA blogs on the Future Climate For Africa website with inputs from Kulimahttp://kulima.com/2019/01/07/three-new-umfula-blogs-on-the-future-climate-for-africa-website-with-inputs-from-kulima/
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 07:00:01 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2769Read more »]]>The Future Climate For Africa website features three blogs from the UMFULA project with inputs from Kulima. In "Lessons I took away from my first Adaptation Futures Conference" Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema reflects on what she learned at the meeting in Cape Town and its relevance for Malawi. In "Writeshops – key tools for generating outputs in international research projects" Joanna Pardoe (LSE), Katharine Vincent, Rebecka Henriksson Malinga (UKZN) and Neha Mittal (Leeds) reflect on the benefits of sitting together to work on a common output. In "What if applied research projects required a carbon budget, alongside a financial one?" Katharine Vincent considers one way of limiting carbon emissions in international projects.
]]>2769New open access paper “What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production?”http://kulima.com/2018/12/06/new-open-access-paper-what-can-climate-services-learn-from-theory-and-practice-of-co-production/
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:00:42 +0000http://kulima.com/?p=2750Read more »]]>A new paper "What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production?" has just been made available online in the journal Climate Services. The paper, led by Kulima director Dr Katharine Vincent with co-authors Meaghan Daly, Claire Scannell and Bill Leathes, is an output of two projects funded by DFID: UMFULA (Future Climate for Africa) and Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER). Co-produced climate services are increasingly recognised as a means of improving the effective generation and utilisation of climate information to inform decision-making and support adaptation to climate change, particularly in developing countries. The paper reviews the co-production literature in other science policy fields to distil some key principles to inform climate services. A co-produced climate service product should be decision-driven, process-based and time-managed, whilst the process of co-producing a climate service should be inclusive, collaborative and flexible. Illustrations are also provided of how these principles may be engaged in practice.
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